Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1880 — A WINTER TOUR. [ARTICLE]

A WINTER TOUR.

Embracing a Trip to St. Louis, thro’ the Sunny South, a Gulf Ride, and Home via Texas, Arkansas, or In dian Territory. The Winter is the season during which business men, and especially tanners, can best afford to leave the warerooin or the farm tor a journey in search of recreation and pleasure, the chief drawback being the inauspicious condition ot the weather for such a trip north ot Mason and Dixon’s line between the months ot October and May. This objeciion is overcome in the following tour arranged for the benefit ot health and pleasure-seekers, via PanHandle Route aud connections, through Mississippi and Louisiana to New Or* eans; by Gulf steamer to Galvesion, Texas, returning to Bt. Louis and home via Pan Handle Route and connections, j Tickets are first-class, aud good to return until June Ist 1880. A detour may be made from Houston to the oil Span* isli winter resort of San Antonio. Rate for round trip will be from fifty to seventy-five dollars, according to starting point. Round trip tickets will also be sold to Florida via Pan Handle Route and con* nections. For information regarding routes, rates and conveniences of travel, address VV. L. O’Brien, General Passenger Agent Pan Handle Route, Columbus, Ohio R. E. Spencer & Co. have the best Sweet Cider in town. The Searcher department of the New post-office, in the space of one mooth, gathered from the mail-bags the follow? ing curious aud heterogeneous collection of unmailable matter: Received Alive —Rattle snakes, black snakes, copper. head makes, moccasin snakes, cals, bees, grasshoppers, liorgets, wasps, alligators, canary birds, potato bugs, horned frogs, tortaise, turtles. Received Dead—Mice, butterfles, humming birds, rats, insects, squirrels, quails, bugs, pneasants. Cook; ed Articles —Plum pudding, boiled quail ham sandwiches, bread aud butter, cake, crackers, bread pudding, jelly, custaiob cheese, sausages. Miscellaneous. —Pisi tols, loaded cartridges, torpedoes, medif cities, glassware, clything, soiled under* garments, baby clothes, lio<ie y. hais brushes, carpenter tools, pieces of in aj chinery, fence wire, gold and silver watches, jewelry, notions and novelties of all kinds, shrubs, roots, scions, herbs, fresh and dried; fruits aud and last but far from least, six cases of dyua| mile, which were promptly thrown -into East River. Dates. Figs, &c., for holidays, at it. E. S. & Co. Paper bricks a-e now being manufactured in Wisconsin, aud lately a few were made by one of the paper-mills, of California, in which state they bid fair to meet with niuch favor, inasmuch as plenty of tlm best fibrous material —particularly aquatic rushes ar*l vast forests of paper cactus, the latter substance being admirably adapted for the purpose—a rows near at band. Moreover, houses built of these bricks would need no plas* ter and could be easily moved on pbeels. it is sani that the Chines make the soles of all their shoes out ol paper similarly prepaaed. Celebrated A. Booth Oysters, by quart, can, or dish, at R. E. Spencer & Co.

Tne usually wide awake drummer gets absent-minded sometimes, and then romelliing like ibis happens, a 3 related by the Kondout Freeman: ‘‘An agent tor a JSew York house callad on a merchant yesterday, and handed him a picture of bis betrothed instead ol his business card, saying he tepresented that establishment, iite merchant examined il carefully, remarked that it was a very line establishment, and returned it to tire astonished man, with a hope that he would soon be admhtjd into partnership.” Two men started from Minneapolis on the same train,carrying conflicting deeds to a piece of laud in Sioux Fails, and each resolved to get his document recorded lirst. As they approached that city one of them ctimoed upon the engine, slipped the coupling, lett the train to take care of itself and m-hed on, securing a record of his title half an hour before bis rival. Springfield [Mass.) Republican; Republican politicians may as well remember that it Grant is nominated, the antiGrant boom will be a good deal bigger than the Democratic party, and as the Grant boom is a good deal smaller than the Republican party, the result might he tin pleasant for the Republican politicians. The Peoria Democrat says: The Republicans have emphatically put their ;oot in it by their mobocratio and revolutionary demonstrations in .Maine better keep altogether within the letter andjspirit of the law, gentlemen. You can not afford to inaugurate.civil war. The Leadville Chronicle says that a common vagrant and drunkard, now in the chain gang of that city under the assumed name of Stormont, was formerly a United States Senator from an Eastern State. A bird dealer ot Des Moines sold a parrot lor #4O, with the assuiance that it did uot know any bad language, but the purchasei soon found that it swore like a trooper., aud has sued to recover the mor ney. The young lady who tempts a young men with a fflass of wine deserves a drunken husband. A. man can borrow all the trouble he wants on his own personal security. <*> Don’t fail to go to C. C Starr’s new store for anything you warn in the Grocery or Queens ware line, aud examine his goods and prices before making your purchases. Standard goods and low prices, for cash, is his motto. Those contemplating building will do well to examine goods and ascertain prices, at he hardware store of E. L. Clark, before going elsewhere. Sugar, Coffee, Teas and Spices, at bottom prices, at C. 0. Starr’s new Cash Store.